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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Drizzle vs. Interbase vs. IRONdb vs. NuoDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Drizzle vs. Interbase vs. IRONdb vs. NuoDB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitedgraph.iowww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Drizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerEmbarcaderoCirconus LLC.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release20162008198420172013
Current release7.2.4, September 2012InterBase 2020, December 2019V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercialcommercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++CC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linuxhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono infoexport as XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes, in LuaJava, SQL
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Interbase Change Viewsconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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